Islamic Modernities in World Society(English, Hardcover, Jung Dietrich)

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Islamic Modernities in World Society(English, Hardcover, Jung Dietrich) is written by Jung Dietrich and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474492630 (ISBN 10) and 9781474492638 (ISBN 13).

How is one 'authentically' modern? Substantively drawing on contemporary social theory, this book investigates the multiplicity of answers that Muslims have given to this question since the end of the nineteenth century. Through six historical and thematic case studies, the chapters examine the historical evolution of multiple modernities within Islam. The book argues that we can observe the rise and spread of a relatively hegemonic idea according to which a relation to Islamic traditions bestows projects of Muslim modernities with cultural authenticity. At the same time, the book provides an interpretation of this specifically Islamic discourse of modernity as an inherent part of global modernity in conceptual terms understood as the emergence of world society.